Geelong drenched as state lashed by storms

Geelong copped more rain on Friday than in any calendar month this year, triggering a warning for ‘life-threatening flash flooding’ in the regional city.

Machetes, a meat cleaver and a carving knife were among weapons seized from a gang of teenage boys in the CBD on the first night of the annual Moomba Festival.

In 1981, it was $20,000 cash and a beach house. Today, it’s organised crime infiltrating the CFMEU – and a toothless watchdog. It’s time to fix it. John Silvester outlines how.

One of the state’s largest disability service providers is withdrawing its transport services due to financial pressures and trying to sell off the buses they were given for free.

Parents are choosing private education in increasing numbers, but the latest school snapshot also had much-needed good news for government schools.

Test your knowledge of Melbourne and Victoria with Stephen Brook’s quiz.

There have been more than a dozen arson attacks and two shootings related to illicit tobacco markets since Hamad was arrested in Iraq in mid-January.

To add to Pakula’s workload for the week he was asked as the chair of Crown to find a last-minute room for a “late breaking visitor”.

A coroner has found two university housemates found dead near Mount Bogong likely become disorientated in severe weather after taking on a hike they were inexperienced for.

Readers evaluate the actions of Trump, Netanyahu and the words of Albanese and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and only one of them gets a positive result.

In a defamation action against her estranged husband, Cate Sayers claims the businessman shared false medical information and details of her sexual history.

The same police investigating the alleged childcare paedophile have now charged a third person with nearly 200 sex crimes against children and animals.

Nicole Piastri says she wishes her son Oscar had chosen golf or tennis. “But he loves it,” she says ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.

A resident who says he had never met Freeman was ordered at gunpoint to lie facedown and restrained with zip ties, before he was told by officers he was under arrest for harbouring a fugitive.

Families involved in two horror mix-ups that saw women implanted with the wrong embryos have received massive secret settlements from Monash IVF.

As Lynn was told he will remain behind bars as he awaits a retrial for the murder of Carol Clay in Victoria’s High Country, he kept his gaze fixed firmly on the floor.

As Lynn was told he will remain behind bars as he awaits a retrial for the murder of Carol Clay in Victoria’s High Country, he kept his gaze fixed firmly on the floor.

The former pilot will remain behind bars as he awaits a retrial for the murder of Carol Clay in Victoria’s High Country.

The injuries, which commonly occur among boys aged 10 to 14, can include broken bones, fractured skulls and even a ruptured spleen.

The Melbourne-based nuclear incident room monitors global radiation threats and can model how radioactive material could spread.

While the Glamour on the Grid guest list has undergone a cull, the event still managed to present an eclectic array of attendees. But no one makes a serious fashion statement better than Judd.

Officers believe this violence to be part of a wider trend of criminal syndicates looking to fill the vacuum left in the tobacco black market following the arrest of Kazem Hamad.

Readers argue that the volatility of Middle East oil should propel the government to incentivise the take-up of clean energy.

A skateboarder, a food truck owner, a dancer and a Birdman Rally entrant explain why they like Moomba.

Transporting 1200 tonnes of Grand Prix gear and people through a war zone is just another day on the job for logistics expert Simon Price.

Taxpayers are facing a hefty bill to pay for works to clean up and expand the Formula 1 pit facilities at Albert Park.

In April 2008, I jokingly referred to myself as the “Queen of Suppression Orders” when explaining to a jury why I had banned a show that had been about to air on the Nine network.

The pop star has returned to Melbourne a week after his run of three huge shows at Marvel Stadium.

Detectives flew interstate on Wednesday morning and arrested a man as part of the investigation into the “suspicious disappearance” of Brendan Breen.

In a leafy suburb in Melbourne’s east that a court has banned us from naming, a neighbourhood spat started by the bashing of a dog has escalated into warfare.